Bank of Pendleton v. Martin

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Cothran.

Controversy as to the right to the possession of a bale of cotton produced by one H. B. Greenlee, upon the lands of the defendant, Martin; the bank claiming it under a chattel mortgage given to it to Greenlee to secure a loan of money, and the defendant claiming it as a part of the crop produced by Greenlee as a laborer and not as a tenant., The bank instituted claim and delivery proceedings for the cotton, and executed the required bond. The defendant did not claim the immediate return of the property, but answered, claiming the…